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Sex Under the Influence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the effects of drinking on decision making. In this alcohol use lesson, students discover how their decision making skills are hindered when drinking. High schoolers discuss how HIV is and is not transmitted and...
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Big Decisions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider the power of peer pressure. For this making decisions lesson, students watch "Big Decisions," and discuss the impact peers may have on one's health, choice, and risk-taking. Students role play scenarios that require...
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Making Decisions About Hazardous Waste Cleanup

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work together to role play a situation which shows the decision-making process in cleaning up hazardous waste. They identify participates in the Superfund and make judgments about how cleanup would help an area. They share...
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Health: Influences on Decisions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars discover factors influencing their decisions after explaining their reasons for choosing favorite beverages. Working in pairs, they complete worksheets about the influences on decision-making. They write stories about...
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Mini-Unit: Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how their choices affect others.  In this character development and ecology lesson, students debate choice-making issues.  Students listen to The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and identify choices the characters made about tree...
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Making Half MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Establish healthy eating habits with a lesson plan focused around MyPlate's food recommendations and the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. Through class discussion and worksheet completion, scholars discuss the best choices of...
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Making Healthy Food and Activity Choices: Putting the Pyramid Together

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students work with the Food Guide Pyramid. In this Food Guide Pyramid lesson, students draw a large rendering of the food pyramid on a piece of butcher paper. They cut out pictures of foods and place them on the food pyramid, they play a...
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Economic Reasoning: Why Are We A Nation Of Couch Potatoes?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the visual aids of this lesson to study the costs and benefits of decisions about diet and exercise. They investigate human choice as it affects behavior and in turns effects economics and consequences.
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Decision-making and Teen Parenthood

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In these two lessons, young scholars discuss how to make a rational decision. They listen to a guest speaker about their decision to delay parenthood. They review a handout together as a class.
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Touch and Abstinence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
FLASH has put together another good lesson about touch and abstinence. Humans need human touch, yet many confuse this need for touch, and their desire for sex. Discuss the four types of touch with your health or teen issues class. There...
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One Kid Can Make A Difference

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students make a pledge to make three positive choices for 30 days and track their progress. In this positive choices lesson plan, students discuss ways in which they can be healthier, protect the environment, be respectful, and more....
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Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Decisions and Consequences

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Teach young learners that most drug addictions end in one of three outcomes: treatment, jail, or death. After watching a short video segment on the consequences of drug abuse, class members discuss what they viewed and consider what...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Dealing with Peer Influence: What Are Bullying and Harassment?

For Teachers 5th Standards
Scholars examine examples of peer pressure and discuss how specific actions negatively affect one's well-being. Learners gather in small groups to write two scenarios in which peer pressure is used. They reference the STAR method in how...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Obesity: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Kids Health presents two lessons that encourage them to move their bodies and eat balanced meals. In making smart choices, learners list five exercise activities to replace screen time. Pupils discuss types of food and categorize them as...
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Lesson 23: Reproduction - Day 5: Birth Control

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students with mild to moderate disabilities discuss human reproduction and the importance of preventing pregnancy. They review reproductive anatomy, sexual decision making, and what birth control is. The lesson concludes with a...
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Food Choices The Pyramid Way

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students develop skills in making nutritionally-sound food choices. Keeping a food diary, they analyze their food intake using the food pyramid as a guide. Students identify and explain the relationship of nutrition to personal health...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Caution: Thin Ice!

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders listen to a story titled "Thin Ice!" then partake in a whole-class discussion asking and answering questions about what was read. Scholars brainstorm risky behaviors in preparation for a game of RISKO—a game similar to...
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Choices That Adolescents Make

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the different types of information available to adolescents. They analyze the decision making process of adolescents and examine the basis for egocentric thought. They analyze to what degree peer pressure affects...
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Health And Life Skills Outcomes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use skills that are directly related to alcohol, tobacco and other drug choices (e.g., refusal skills, decision making, stress reduction skills)
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Dear Expert

For Teachers 10th - 12th
High schoolers identify sexual decision-making issues. In small groups, they answers letters written to them as the expert. Groups discuss the most appropriate way to respond to the scenario given to them and formulate an answer to the...
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Nutrition Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 1st
First graders comprehend the importance of making healthy food choices for a healthy heart. They discuss the connection between what they eat and a healthy body and heart. Students discriminate between healthy foods, or "heart-smart...
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Our Choices Matter: What You Eat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will record their food choices for one week, noting calories, protein and vitamin content of foods using a given USDA website. Students will discuss whole class the important of proper nutrition and its role, and what happens...
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What Would McGruff Say?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students learn to manage dangerous situations and strengthen decision-making skills.
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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify healthy food choices. In this nutrition instructional activity, students review the food pyramid and write down their favorite food on a post-it note. Students create a bar graph of favorite foods using the post-it notes.

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